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Reading list

There were several novels on that list that I feel I ought to read. I'll see how many of these I can track down and read this year, what do you think? Any not to bother with?

Algis Budrys : Rogue Moon
Mikhail Bulgakov : The Master and Margarita
Michael Chabon : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
GK Chesterton : The Man Who Was Thursday
Samuel R. Delaney : The Einstein Intersection Nova and/or Dhalgren
Thomas M. Disch : Camp Concentration
Umberto Eco : Foucault's Pendulum
Russell Hoban : Riddley Walker
Henry James : The Turn of the Screw
Gwyneth Jones : Bold as Love
Patrick McCabe : The Butcher Boy
Cormac McCarthy : The Road
Haruki Murakami : The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
John Cowper Powys : A Glastonbury Romance
Robert Louis Stevenson : The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Rupert Thomson : The Insult
Gene Wolfe : The Book of the New Sun
Angus Wilson : The Old Men at the Zoo

And here are some that I don't really know anything about. I mean, I've heard of Auster and Calvino and Ramsey Campbell of course, but I don't know those books. The others I haven't even heard of the author. Any thoughts on any of these?

Paul Auster : In the Country of Last Things
William Beckford : Vathek
Charles Brockden Brown : Wieland
Italo Calvino : The Baron in the Trees
Ramsey Campbell : The Influence
Michael G Coney : Hello Summer, Goodbye
Marie Darrieussecq : Pig Tales
Jed Mercurio : Ascent
Andrew Miller : Ingenious Pain
Robert Walser : Institute Benjamenta
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    I see Gove has backed down on climate change and it's back in the curriculum again.

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    My book is now for sale

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